You might wonder how it stayed inside for so long, but it’s true that doctors have pulled out a live leech from a patient’s nostril where it had been hiding for two weeks. The extraction was filmed by a nurse as Dr Liu Xiongguang dragged the parasite out of the nose. watch video here
video courtsey: Newyork post
The 51 year old man who’s nose the leech made a comfortable home for so long was having continuous nose bleeds for ten days. He went to Beihai People’s Hospital in South China and was aided by Dr Liu who is the ENT specialist of the hospital.
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One really has to look at the facial expression of the man when the doctor pulls out the leech.
Dr Liu said: “The male patient is 51 years old. He’s just come back from work in Yunnan Province and has been suffering from nosebleeds for more than 10 days. His wife said she had seen something peek out of his nostrils. When I checked I saw it in his right nostril, then I found something in his left nostril that suddenly disappeared. We confirmed it to be a leech during a nasal endoscopy. “My nurse almost collapsed from fright”
We are not sure how the leech found it’s way in to the nostril but is believed to have entered while the patient was taking a swim in the river.
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